SPARTA, Mich. — The 70 acres off of Alpine Avenue is land that developer John Bitely has had his eye on for years. “This is an area that’s been master-planned for homes for over 17 years,” Bitely said ...

A house in Sparta that sold for $1.4 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Sussex County in the past week.

After nearly 40 years, a Sparta estate once home to one of the most famous CEOs of the era of excess, RJR Nabisco's F. Ross Johnson, is back on the market. Johnson's former hilltop retreat at 210 E.